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Find an Awesome Nonprofit Tech Training Near You

Tech Soup

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Central and South America. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Asia and the Pacific Rim.

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Time To Celebrate: Nov. 15th Is National Philanthropy Day

Bloomerang

Andrew Carnegie is one of America’s most famous philanthropists, noted for the large scale of his charitable contributions, which included building more than 2,500 libraries worldwide. Remember your fundraisers Remembering the professionalism and skill of trained fundraisers is a key part of the day.

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Connecting with Black History Through Community and Nature

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 2009, Rue Mapp started a blog to share her experience participating in outdoor recreation activities as a Black woman in America. People started commenting, suggesting meetups, and asking for recommendations. There is just no singular Black experience in America. I knew that local relevance mattered.

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How Online Work Can Save America

Tech Soup

In her piece How Online Work Can Save America , Leila Chirayath Janah talks about her work with Samasource , which employs people living in poverty in developing countries to do online "microwork" for companies like Ask.com and Intuit. Microwork requires little training, and is paid per task.

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The training event, which will be live streamed starting at 9:00 am , will feature fundraising and social media gurus Katya Andresen, Danielle Brigida, Tracy Equality Viselli, Jocelyn Harmon and more. The next day, a big order of diapers came in from Amazon – and they thought it must be her that donor that left the comment.

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Networked Capacity Building: Finish Line Grantees Social Media Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project includes face-to-face training , webinar , as well as one-on-one coaching provided by the expert team at SpitFire. It is very important because this is when the energy level is at its lowest point in a training. Friending the Finish Line. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. SMART(er) Social Objectives.

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Tech Impact Receives $200,000 Grant

TechImpact

I worked very hard to learn as much as I could about computers and I realized that the IT field is where I really want to be, because I am able to be myself in this field,” commented Kendima, about how his love for computers came about. And now, with the help of Bank of America’s Charitable Foundation’s.

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